Optimum location for chest compressions during two-rescuer infant cardiopulmonary resuscitation

Resuscitation

Volumn 80, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1378-1381

  You, YeonHo ^a  

^a Chungnam National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation; Compression; Infant

Indexed keywords

AORTA ROOT; ARTICLE; CHILD CARE; COMPRESSION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESCUE PERSONNEL; RESUSCITATION; STERNUM;

CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; HAND; HEART ARREST; HEART MASSAGE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MANIKINS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STERNUM; THORACIC WALL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 70449707164     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2009.08.013     Document Type: Article

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